Is FFXIV up against the clock?

[Forbin]

not everyone likes Star Wars or cares to play BioWare games.. I don't like Action MMO style games, thus I don't play their RPG's.. i thought KOTOR was terrible.. i prefer traditional JRPG's... FFXIV will be here 10 years from now.. nothing to see here keep moving kids.

[Jennestia]

They are going to make a shitload in two weeks with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. They have the new Tomb Raider coming soon as well. KH3DS even though the 3DS is one of nintendos first major Flop Consoles since the Virtual Boy will sell really well, though I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up on the PSP/PSV.

Err...the 3DS is a flop comparable to the Virtual Boy? Wonder if you're just speaking in bias towards Playstation systems, since the 3DS is doing 100x better than the VB ever did.

[Cairdeas]

Err...the 3DS is a flop comparable to the Virtual Boy?

3DS has already had a price drop because of poor sales.

[Abriael]

Err...the 3DS is a flop comparable to the Virtual Boy? Wonder if you're just speaking in bias towards Playstation systems, since the 3DS is doing 100x better than the VB ever did.

The 3DS did "flop", that's why they were forced to drop the price faster than i've ever seen done to a console, and not by a small amount. Mind you, they're plenty in time to turn things around, but the fact that launch was unsuccessful is simply a fact.

Doing 100x better than one of the worst failures in the portable market isn't a degree of success.

@Cairedas: you're forgetting Arkham City, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and quite a lot of other strong games in the pipeline. If there's a company in the market that won't run out of money anytime soon, that's square enix, despite what the trolls wish.

[Biggs]

With a certain major game going into Beta as of 10am PST how many will continue to give FFXIV a fighting chance? I want the game to succeed i really do but overall the updates are slow and the Dungeons just do not provide enough of a challenge. No Other methods of transportation, grinding is still not that fun, etc etc

This game has a lot to overcome but with Blizzard now pushing its next major release can FFXIV overcome the odds? Or will it now be a ticking time bomb with only a possible few months left to recover.

Since this thread is not really taking the direction i was looking for let me modify the post to say how many of you are interested in Diablo III, and with it going into Beta now will you start looking more in that direction, or with the current changes to the game post 1.18 is it enough for you to see SE is making changes and believes in the game.

I wouldn't call it a Doomsday thread, but to be fair this marks the 8th or 9th thread I have seen since 14's release that has someone saying that an upcoming game soon to be released could kill this game. I have been playing this game since the beta, and I currently play on one of the lowest populated servers, and there are more people on now than there were at launch. I don't think any game will "kill" this game.

Diablo III isn't really close to the same style of game as FFXIV with the exception that it too could be called fantasy. Granted, there are similarities to be sure but I think that an action RPG and an MMO are two completely different animals. The only thing that can "kill" FFXIV is SE, not some other wanna-be dungeon crawler that Blizzard has been promising will come out for the past decade. Rift couldn't do it, DCU couldnt do it, Star Wars sure as hell won't do it, and neither will some old school hack and slash classic remake.

[Drunk-Bandit]

With any luck all the people who constantly complain will leave for these new amazing games.

We'll have a much better community then.

More like a dead community similar to Age of Conan if you ask me lol....

i thought KOTOR was terrible..

lol you seriously don't know what a good game is then.... Sure I'm not a big fan of it's upcoming mmorpg coming out... however atleast bioware knows have to put up an interesting storyline unlike XIV.... Which contains the "Coming Soon" Crap lmao.....

[Biggs]

Half those games, have not even launched, and Cataclysm did leave FFXIV where it is now, wish is nowhere in the MMO map.

LMAO! No man, that couldnt be further from the truth. Poor game design, a premature launch, and shitty UI left this game where it is now. People just switched back to WOW after the fact.

[odette]

FFXIV have potential, but the worst enemy of ffxiv are ffxi fans, they want old tedius things in this new game
made more content for new player, not for ffxi fans

[Abriael]

More like a dead community similar to Age of Conan if you ask me lol....

You must not have played AoC recently.

lol you seriously don't know what a good game is then.... Sure I'm not a big fan of it's upcoming mmorpg coming out... however atleast bioware knows have to put up an interesting storyline unlike XIV.... Which contains the "Coming Soon" Crap lmao.....

You mean a good storyline like Dragon Age 2?

lol. You might want to use the past tense there.

[Drunk-Bandit]

You must not have played AoC recently.

Less then 10k doesn't count... lol Sure they fixed the gameplay and crap but midnight has come and gone for funcom sorry dude

You mean a good storyline like Dragon Age 2?

lol. You might want to use the past tense there.

Actually I said nothing about Dragon age 2.... Heck ain't even played the first one lol maybe cause I'm not a bioware fanboi... Just loved KOTOR Series until TOR